Sólmánuður, 412 I.E
By Rismal when the sun rose from the west as the stars disappeared from the sky. Rita awakened from her sleep in a ditch just as her mount Fagin, a Carnotaurus licked her face. She groans just as she gets up and to her horror, her people died out from a raid last night caused by the members of the rival clan, the Uriel Clan from the west.
Their lord, even though he is dead, the Uriel Clan from the looks of it was victorious and the Azhirite Clan was wiped from history. She shutters, her breath shakens with dread at the sight of her dead people. Her father died from a stab wound and her mother and sister are nowhere to be seen.
"Oh maker..." She utters before falling onto her knees with tears coming from her eyes as her vision blurs. He sobs as tears hit the sandy ground and her carnotaurus whines. There was no point in getting revenge since the lord was dead.
By Dagmal, Rita buried her kin underneath the sands of the Clan's catacombs and sealed it before exiting the large sandstone hall. She packed all of her belongings and put them in the large bags held by twine before putting them on Fagin's back.
She then hops on Fagin's back and looks back at her childhood home for one last time. Overwhelmed with grief and melancholy. She orders her mount to go north. It didn't take long before the heat from the sun came down. Neither Rita nor her mount were bothered by it since they were used to it.
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He watches the sun setting in the east and the rise of the glowing white moon rising from the west, with several stars appearing in the dark sky. "Lord Taurox, The hound arrives." a tribal tells the massive orange and red skin saurin. He twists his large muscle-clad head to face his fellow sand-dwelling saurian.
"Is she now." He spoke in a low volatile voice as he looked at the pangaean in his yellow eyes as he told him to fetch her. The Saurin nods before disappearing from his sight. followed by Taurox lighting some torches at his tent when the lone cynoea comes, Her fur is revealed by the flames to be brown with her eyelids having the color of purple. Behind her back is a long curved sword made from sandstone and wore silk clothing.
"I've heard about your exploits in that corpse city of Kaziaria. How did you feel after leaving that rancid city?"
"Relief from the horrors of the catacombs, You summoned me up here, Why?" The Solaris hound questions him when the gigantic behemoth walks towards an old chest on the war table and pulls out a map of Pangaea. The map is Laurasian by design with several Pangaeic letterings written down to display the names of various Laurasian cities from Acheron to Gondwana. "From one of your raids against Laurasians huh?"
"MMmm, Tell me why do you seek this out? What will you gain from traveling from Solaris to Acheron?" Taurox as the girl as she looks away from him with an anguished face. "I'm all that's left, my people died from rival clans for scraps of food and water. Only my Carnotaurus Fagin accompanies me now."
Taurox understood what she was going through since his last raid against the Laurasian invaders. "My condolence to you Solaris Hound."
"It's Rita, Chieftain Taurox" The girl informs him as the Saurin nods, Taurox asks Rita "Do you have a plan on where to go once you leave the dunes?"
"Probably just make a home in the forest with Fagin by my side and just live out my days until I reach the star realms when I cease in my final hours," Rita spoke when a Solaris tribal entered and yelled "BLACK SKULLS!"
Rita and Taurox get up, grab their weapons, and rush to see these Solaris hound raiders with their faces painted white over their natural red scales. Two of them notice the pair and charge at them. With one swipe with his large sandstone maul, Taurox whacks one of these Black Skull raiders at the right side of their head, instantly killing them while the other pins Rita down, slowly raising his Axe only for the large saurin to swing his weapon at the Black Skull Raider's right hip. Allowing for the cynoea to stand up quickly as roars and shouting of the saurin and Cynoea echo and weapons clashing.
More of Taurox's followers defended themselves from the Black Skull Saurins. Taurox and Rita fought side by side as more of these raiders came to them. Two loose carnotaurus rampage through the enemy just as Black Skull Archers shoot Fagin with several arrows. Seeing this causes Rita to be enraged and run towards the archers. She killed about two of them and the third one pulled out their curved sword. Both Hounds engage in battle with their swords clashing against one another. Both of their eyes lock onto each other filled with wrath. Rita took the opportunity to kick in her opponent's knee and stab her in the chest before pulling her sword Flaming Lash out from the wound of the now-dead Solaris hound.
The remaining Black Skulls raiders fled before they could die in battle. The Saurins roar and cheer for their victory, Rita pants a bit when her mount Fagin comes up to her and makes a low growl. She placed her hand on his nose when another Carnotaurus, Taurox's carnotaurus named the Bull due to its curl horns resembling that of an Aurloch's horns.
Taurox goes up to him and places his hand on him as well before telling his followers to create a bonfire to burn the bodies of the dead. Rita would assist the Saurian tribals in gathering the dead.
The next day, Rita rides Fagin to the north with some supplies when a giant Flyer comes up to her. He stood as tall as the trees, His skin was red and orange like Taurox, and he wore jewelry made from clay and sandstone.
"I pray you don't die on your way out from the desert. Certainly the Kindred of Xhotl." the Arambourian informs Rita as she nods with agreement before asking about the Kindred of Xhotl.
"They are another rebel force in the northern jungles of Gondwana, led by the serpendon known as the Laster Defender. Unless you provoke them or your alignment belongs to the Axefang Imperium or Laurasian Empire they are neutral. Even then it's best to keep out of their way."
"Thanks but who are you exactly?" Rita asks the azdarchidan as it reveals his name as Xitzil. The seer of the Tusk and a member of Taurox's tribe. "I've always thought that your kind were legends spoken except know with you in front of me..."
"...Indeed Rita." Rita raises her left eyebrow as to how the Xitzil knew her name despite meeting him for the first time led alone witnessing the existence of an Arambourian. She discourages herself from questioning the Azhdarchidan and on Fagin's back, She leaves the tribe leaving Xitzil. Taurox came up with his weapon in hand and spoke "I understood her plight Xitzil, I knew what she went through the moment she came to us."
"Her mind is filled with grief yet she takes no vengeance, It's like that moment when I found you when you were young Taurox. How the Laurasian General slaughtered your father, your brothers, and other members of your former tribe. Since then you've proven yourself to the Tusked One."
